[CWN-Summit] Seeking advice on low-cost mesh node wifi in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

[Stelios Valavanis]

i see. so this isn't really a freenet, just a bunch of people sharing their 
own internet connections which you guys facilitate.

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 4:47:36 pm Ramon Roca wrote:
> En/na Stelios Valavanis ha escrit:
> > you also said there were about 600 internet connections. so that's almost
> > 1 internet connection for every 10 nodes. and you didn't need to do any
> > mesh?
>
> I'm sorry, I guess there was a misunderstanding here.
>
> When talking about 600 I was referring to what we call the wireless
> backbone with dedicated (wireless) ptp links, not connections to the
> internet.
> The connections to the internet, as well as other services, are listed
> here: http://guifi.net/en/node/3671/view/services
> Currently I do see about 60 listed, not 600. However might be other
> internets not listed by the users (unknown number).
>
> We *DO* mesh, what we don't do is the mesh restricted to ad-hoc mode, we
> do mesh also in infrastructre. If you like to restrict the "mesh" to
> ad-hoc mode, that would create another terminology misunderstanding ;)

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